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...Harvard Survival Guide Drinking Game, buy yourself a nice big hip flask, and start playing. 1.) Someone says “Foucault,” “Sartre” or “Marx” in section 2.) You see The Office of Alcohol & Other Drug Services (AODS) Nalgene 3.) You see a DHA tuxedo 4.) Someone asks a question in lecture—double shot it if they speak twice in the same lecture 5.) Somebody mentions they’re Pre-Med—body shot if they’re a humanities concentrator...
...brimmed with thumping techno, lasciviously gyrating bodies, and a stale, acrid fog machine haze. At least one face-painted, shirtless, sweaty dude bounced around the room, beckoning fellow revelers to join him in electronica ecstasy. And yet, Friday night’s Underground Rave—sponsored by DAPA, Drug and Alcohol Peer Advisors—was a decidedly wholesome affair. Despite being alcohol-free, the event managed to attract more than 300 curious party people over the course of the night. Pre-gaming is an admittedly useful innovation. But the event had the surprising air of good, clean...
...effects, are marketed directly to the public, who should monitor the claims, and how? Bioethicist Katie Watson at Northwestern University notes that the blame for misleading ads such as Pfizer's doesn't always lie with one party. "We have an oil and water situation where we have our drug development and sales done on a free market model in the same way we sell cars and refrigerators," she says. "But our medical care is done on a fiduciary duty, privacy and trust model. We throw those two together and we act surprised that we have conflicts of interest...
...Ostensibly, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is charged with protecting the safety of our health and the drugs we take. But the already misfit pairing of the free market pharmaceutical industry with the trust-based medical care model was further strained when the FDA approved direct-to-consumer advertising for drugs in 1997. That allowed pharmaceutical companies to use advertising as a guise for educating patients. While patients feel more knowledgeable about diseases and their options for treating them, where does that information come from? In most cases, it's from industry-sponsored advertising, notes Watson. "The pharmaceutical marketing...
...Which means that, as with any marketed product, the buyer should always beware when it comes to drug ads. "We are taking a hard look at the deceptive tactics of drug companies in their direct-to-consumer advertising," said Stupak in a press release. But ultimately it's up to the consumer and his doctor to decide how much of the truth in advertising to believe...